Type setting and casting machine.



O. KOSKE.

TYPE SETTING AND CASTING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 12, 1907,

94:1 ,93 i a Patented Nov. 30, 1909.

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OTTO KOSKE,

OF ERFURT,

GERMANY.

TYPE SETTING AND CASTING IVIACHINE.

earner.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed June 12, 1907.

Patented Nov. 30, 1909.

Serial No. 378,561.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, O'rTo KosKE, parson, a subject of the King of Prussia, German Emperor, and residing at Erfurt, in the Kingdom of Prussia, German Empire, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Type Setting and Casting Machines, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in t-ype-settingand casting-machines particularly such, as are intended for use in small printing-offices in which there is no motive power at disposal for actuating the machine or machines.

In particular the invention relates to a fundamental change in the arrangement of the matrices which are not as usually an ranged either in a standing or in a suspended position but which are riding upon rails and are caused to pass from the letter-case through the galley or through the castingdevice to the distributing place as will all be more fully described hereinafter.

In order to make my invention more clear I refer to the accompanying drawing in which similar numerals denote similar parts throughout the several views and in which Figure 1 is a representation of one of the new matrices, Fig. 2 is a representation of that part of the typesetting-machine which serves for moving the matrices from the letter-case to the distributing place, F 3 is a plan of the parts shown in Fig. 2, Fig. 4 is a side view of the outer standard, Fig. 5 is a side view of the inner standard, Fig. 6 is a detail view of the upper portion of the outer standard, in connection with the slide, the g lley and the distributing slide, the standard being shown in longitudinal section. Fig. 7 is a front view of the parts shown in Fig. 6 and Fig. 8 is a vertical section through the means for operating the distributing slide.

The matrix 29, Fig. 1, is as generally provided with the teeth 30, the recesses 31 and the type indications 33, and the matrix has, furthermore, a broad slot 32 extending from below to above the point of gravity of the matrix. The object of the slot 32 is to receive a rail upon which the matrix may ride and by which it is at the same time guided as well as secured in position. This slot is the new departure in the matrix and all the other novel arrangements in the machine have been devised as a consequence of and with respect to the slot in question.

The base plate 1 of the machine is provided with the standards 2, 3 between which the galley may glide up and down. The galley consists of a collecting rail 7 and a ground plate 27, and these two parts are secured to a slide 6 which may glide up and down in a suitable groove of the standard 2, the groove and also the slide being preferably of dove-tailed section. The slide 6 has a downwardly extending rack 18 gearing with a cog-wheel 19 keyed to a shaft 21 supported by bearings 20. The shaft 21 may be rotated by any of the known means provided for in a machine of the kind in question.

The matrices 29 are shoved upon the rail- 7 when the parts 7 and 27 are in their lower most position as indicated bv dotted lines in Fig. 2. The matrices are stored in known manner in the letter case 4 and are conducted to the rail 7 by means of the oblique rail 5 which terminates just at the free end of the rail 7. After the type has been cast which is effected in a known manner and by known means, the shaft 21 is rotated and the rack 18 is thus raised by means of the cog-wheel 19 so that the rail 27 is carried upward in the position shown in full lines in Fig. 2.

The lever 23 is fulcrumed to an arm 14: hinged to the standard 2. This lever is provided with a -counter-piece 2a causing the lever to act against the rack 18 in such a way that the lever is moved upward when the rack 18 goes upward. Before thus being actuated by the rack 18 the lever 23 is in an oblique position as indicated in dotted lines in Fig. 8. In order to raise the lever 23 to the position shown in full lines in Fig. 8, the rack 18 has a cavity 35 into which the pointed end of the lever 23 may take. Owing to this movement of this lever, the arm 14 is swung outward and a slide 16 connected with the arm 14; by means of a loop 15 and a pin 17 is moved to the left (Fig. 2). The righthand end of the slide 16 has a fork 28, Figs. 6 and 7, adapted to push the matrices along upon the rail 7 and to the letter case 1 so as to distribute the types into this case. In the same moment in which the rail 7 with the matrices thereby supported has arrived in its highest position, the lever 23 of the arm 14 gets into a recess 36 of the rack 18 so that the arm 14 can follow the action of the spring 34:. hen forcing the arm l t to the left a spring 34 had been put under tension and the arm 14 is now brought back to its former position by this spring as is also the slide 16 with its fork 28.

There are above the letter case two parallel conveying screws 9 supported by bearings 8, and between and above these conveying screws is a toothed distributing rail 26, Fig. 5, by means of which the matrices are caused to get to and into the proper compartments of the case l.

lVhen the plate 27 of the slide 6 is moved upward it pushes near to the end of its path against a hook-shaped lever 10 hinged at 12 to the standard 3 and taking into the path of said plate. As soon as the plate 27 has passed the lever 10, the latter regains its former position and takes below the plate so as thereby to support this plate as well as the rail 27 and all the other parts connected therewith. The rail 7 is supported in this manner until the last matrix has been brought to and between the conveying screws 9. A red 11 is adjustably located in the standard 2. One end of this rod is directed to the upper end of the lever 10 and acts against the same. The other end of the rod 11 is arranged in the path of a projection 25 of the arm 14. lVhen this arm 14 is swung back by the spring 34:, after the slide 16 has been so far moved to the right that the last matrix has been done with, its projection pushes against the rod, which rests against the lever. Immediately hereafter the projection 25 causes the bar 11 to actuate the lever 10 so that in the next moment the plate 27 is not any more secured by the lever 10 and the rack 18 is thus free to sink down and to regain its former position, it is the position in which the rail 7 and the plate 27 are again in the position shown in dotted lines in Fig. 2.

By extending the slot upwardly from the bottom of the matrix to a point preferably above the center of gravity thereof and causing the rail to engage in said slot at a point above the center of gravity of the matrix, the rail may perform the dual function of supporting the matrix in such a manner as to prevent its tilting sidewise in a vertical plane and thereby falling from the rail, and of preventing turning or tilting of the matrix in a horizontal plane, any binding of the matrix being prevented and the matrix may be supported solely by the said rail.

Having now described my invention what I desire to secure by a patent of the United States is:

1. In a typesetting and casting-machine, the combination of a rail, matrices adapted to ride upon said rail, an adjustable rack carrying said rail, a standard adapted to form a guide-way for said rack, a lever hinged to said standard, another lever hinged to said first lever, a slide connected with the free end of the said first lever, and being adapted to be moved parallel to the said rail, and means for causing the said rack to move the said slide to and fro, substantially and for the purpose as described.

2. In a type-settingand casting-machine, the combination of a rail, matrices adapted to ride upon said rail, means for raising the rail tog ther with the matrices, a lever adapted to support said rail in its raised position, a bar so arranged as to be adapted to push said lever aside so as thereby to free the said rail from the said lever, and means for actuating said bar, substantially and for the purpose as described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

OTTO KOSKE. lVitnesses PAUL Bonn, PAUL TEIcHMANN. 

